re: column price trigger stamp sugg
re: "...can determine the price from which the alert triggered by noting the time stamp of the alert and then viewing the same time on a ST ELITE chart."
Yes, of course, and I do that. And with window linking is relatively fast, however...
Dial up (which is to say, select) 1 day high alert, filter 5 count, then set history to start at 9:30 am for today (10-27).
Look at the alerts for BLUD. Between 9:34 am and, well 9:34 am, within that same 1 minute interval all 5 counts got used up.
Count Field Value:
1. 9:34 AM New High +0.01
2. 9:34 AM New High +0.01
3. 9:34 AM New High +0.04
4. 9:34 AM New High +0.03
...
5. 9:34 AM New High +0.01
>>This implies that we are up +0.10
Looking at STE chart (1 minute intervals last 7 hrs - max resolution for today, unfortuneately, this degree of STE intraday chart resolution is only available working back from present, won't be able to see after monday, but anyway..)
One minute candle for BLUD shows
BLUD 9:34 10/27
Open 31.48
High 31.49
Low 31.44
Close 31.46
Not only are we not up +0.10 we are actually down 2 cents. I'm curious what is going on there.
Going with a car driving metaphor, sometimes an idiot light for engine overtemperature is good enough, but sometimes you want a temperature gauge to get a better idea of what is going on with the engine. Ditto with an RPM tachometer, or perhaps more aptly, theoretically, all you really need is a low fuel indicator light but we may all agree that it'sit's nice to have an actual fuel gauge.
This suggests an idea for, brace yourself <g>, another feature/improvement. How about adjustable sensitivity for hi/low limit alerts, $0.01 could still be the default, but it could be handy to be able to set 0.02, or 0.05, whatever.
Time is the other variable, and while we have 5 min and 10 min, several fixed selections in rather steeply increasing time increments. I'd like to be able to override those to say, have 1 minute, 2 minute, 7 minute under certain circumstances.
Being able to select Moving averages for x ticks/minutes could be an additional option/approach to the threshold control issue.
